Our commitment and approach to equality and diversity

Gloucester City Homes (GCH) is committed to eliminating unlawful discrimination and promoting equality of opportunity for all our tenants, leaseholders, residents, and both current and future employees.  We are working towards equal opportunities and diversity in both the way we provide services for our tenants and leaseholders; and in the way we recruit and employ staff.  Our overarching principles support our commitment to: 

• Valuing diversity in the community we serve and in the workplace, recognising our legal and moral responsibilities to be fair.
• Treating all tenants, customers, clients, employees and potential employees fairly and consistently.
• Ensuring that no one is treated less favourably on the grounds of race, colour, gender, language, age, religion or belief, disability, sexual orientation, or any other grounds (as outlined in the Human Rights Act 1998), which cannot be justified.  

One of our 8 key strategic objectives is to become a champion of diversity and alongside this to be a customer driven provider of excellent services. 

Gloucester City Homes is committed to ensuring that: -

• Tenants, Residents and Leaseholders have the right to live in peace and safety, free from all forms of discrimination, harassment and prejudice
• All individuals are treated with respect and their contributions valued
• Everyone has an equal opportunity to participate & to receive services in accordance with their needs
• Cultural difference is seen as an asset and cultural diversity is celebrated
• We have respect for individual rights including respect for family life
• We ensure confidentiality and treat everyone fairly

Gloucester City Homes is working to : - 

• Put equalities and diversity considerations at the centre of our business decisions
• Challenge and take action against all forms of discrimination, inequality, prejudice, stereotyping and disadvantage
• Provide accessible services in fair and flexible ways to meet the needs of our tenants, residents and leaseholders
• Carry out Equality Impact assessments, monitor our activities and publish the results on an ongoing basis
• Champion equalities among partner agencies and the local community.

Recognition for our approach to equality and diversity

Please select this link for further information about our award of the Achieving Level of the Equalities Framework.|

Why is equality and diversity important to us?

Please select this link for further information about our commitment to equality and diversity.|

Our service standards

Please select this link to find out our equality and diversity service standards.|

To find out more please select the links below:

Our customer profile|

GCH Annual Diversity Report|

The GCH Equalities Framework|

Diversity/Equal Opportunities/Equalities - What's the difference?|

Equality Policy Statement|

Equalities Scheme|

Equalities review|

Equality and Diversity Action Plan.|

Our self assessment for the Equalities Framework Award|

Press release - GCH achieves Equalities Framework Award| 

The Office of National Statistics (ONS) has collected data as part of the Integrated Household Survey (IHS) This is the largest social survey ever produced by the ONS. The IHS contains information provided by nearly 450,000 individual respondents. The survey is based on a core suite of questions from six current household surveys and includes a question on self perceived sexual identity.

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The Citizenship Survey: 2009-10 (April 2009 - March 2010), England Statistics from the Citizenship Survey include data covering a range of issues including community cohesion, empowerment, values, racial and religious prejudice and discrimination.

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